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. 2009 Nov;87(11):812-3.
doi: 10.2471/blt.09.031109.

Brazil and tobacco use: a hard nut to crack

Brazil and tobacco use: a hard nut to crack

Claudia Jurberg. Bull World Health Organ. 2009 Nov.

Abstract

Brazil is pushing to enforce smoking bans and backing nicotine replacement therapies in an attempt to keep chipping away at tobacco-use statistics. Raising the price of cigarettes would also help. Claudia Jurberg reports.

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Edson Santos (third from left) at a tobacco cessation therapy session. Participants do exercises like this to relax and prevent anxiety.
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